Where does “nemeritat” come from?
nemeritat (Romanian) comes from Romanian meritat, from Romanian merita, from French mériter, from French mérite, from Latin meritum, from Latin meritus, from Latin mereō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)mer- — to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...
nemeritat (Romanian): undeserved
Definitions
- undeserved
Ancestry of “nemeritat”, step by step
nemeritat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian meritat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | meritat | past participle of merita |
| 2 | Romanian | merita | to deserve |
| 3 | French | mériter | to deserve, merit |
| 4 | French | mérite | merit; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | meritum | merit, service, deserts; value, reward, benefit,... |
| 6 | Latin | meritus | earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,... |
| 7 | Latin | mereō | to deserve, merit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mer- | to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to... |